Dialogue

  I am so little before you God. All I have to bring you is me. My heart was a mere black stone when I met you. Sitting cold within my chest. Ebony and dark, I had become everything I wasn’t made for. Your presence stirred life into me. It whispered greatness into my hopes. With one breath my heart became flesh. You looked into my eyes and melted my defenses. You told me, “I love you for you. You don’t have to be anyone else.” Being close to you, I felt your safety, your protection surrounding me with such vigor and immensity. I was a dry land parched without hope. You were living water pouring life into every crevasse. Lord Jesus, I give you my bitterness, the self pity I tend to feel. I give you my apprehensions and my tendencies to doubt the good things you have in store for me. I give you my self doubt and deprecating thoughts. I give you my loneliness and my isolation. I give you the parts of my heart that I have been hiding away out of fear, each little stoney part that remains i